Microsoft Has Sold 24 Million Kinect Sensors

When Microsoft first launched Xbox it was considered an epic failure that
cost the company billions of dollars.

Yesterday, Microsoft execs released a bunch of stats on just how
big a business Xbox has become.

"Microsoft lost $6 billion to $10 billion on Xbox," former
Microsoft executive Joachim Kempin recently told
ReadWrite's Dan Lyons, who still considers it a "crummy"
product and a distraction for Microsoft.

You be the judge: As of its last quarter, year-over-year sales of
the Entertainment and Devices Division
were down 11%. That's the unit responsible for Xbox. The
company sold 5.9M consoles, down 28% from the year-ago quarter
when the company the sold 8.2 million Xbox 360 consoles,
it said.

On the other hand, all told Microsoft has sold more than 76
million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide. "That’s three times the
number of original Xbox consoles sold,"
it said in a press release.

Here's a bunch of other impressive stats about Xbox:

Microsoft sold 24 million Kinect sensors to date, so about one out of
every three Xbox 360 consoles has Kinect.

Xbox Live now has 46 million members, up 15 percent since
last year.

Xbox Live Gold members spent on average 87 hours per month on
Xbox, an increase of 10 percent year over year.

As of 2012, the amount of TV and other entertainment
offerings on Xbox just about tripled. There's now more than 100
voice-controlled TV and entertainment apps on Xbox LIVE.